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Saw Blade Survival Hatchet

Saw Blade Survival Hatchet



This hatchet combines three functions, this is itself an ax, and there is also a small sharp hacksaw, as well as an opener for beer. The author calls it device survivalist ax, although it is rather just a small helper in tourism.

A hatchet was made for mountaineering and, in general, outdoor recreation, with the use of beer, so an opener is provided here. As for the hacksaw, it is convenient for her to cut moderately thick branches, and then chop with an hatchet on woodchips for kindling. An ax is made easily, we use a saw blade as material.

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Materials and tools for homemadeused by the author:

Material List:
- saw blade;
- wood for the manufacture of pens;
- nails for the manufacture of pins;
- epoxy adhesive;
- washer, nut and bolt;
- Sawzall hacksaw blade (the author used 200 mm).







Tool List:
- marker;
- ruler;
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- a good set of files;
- sandpaper;
- It is highly desirable to have a vice or clamp.

Hatchet manufacturing process:

Step one. We invent and cut out the main profile
First of all, you will need to come up with the shape of your hatchet. Always remember that the main chopping characteristics of an ax depend on its weight. The more metal there is, the heavier the ax will be, and the better it will be chopped. Decide also on the shape of the blade, it all depends on what purpose you will use the hatchet. We draw an ax profile on a cutting disc. Or you can first do it on paper, and then cut and transfer to metal, this is a more professional solution.





In addition to this, you will need another detail that needs to be cut. But it will be needed if you install a saw blade in your hatchet. A narrow steel plate should pass through the entire length of the handle, as a result, a groove is formed in the handle in which the hacksaw will be hidden. Of course, the shape of this steel plate should be such that the hacksaw blade fits into its place without hindrance. Since the author’s handle is quite long, it’s impossible to cut out these two parts in one piece, we cut separately the ax and the long plate that goes through the handle.

As for the tool, you can cut out this whole thing with the help of a grinder. Try not to overheat the workpiece for the ax, as this causes the tempering of the metal and it becomes soft.However, re-hardening solves this problem. This work can be done with a hacksaw for metal, however, in this case the metal is usually released by heating, after which it is easy to cut. Grind the remaining fragments on the grinder or with the same grinder.

Step Two Make a pen
This step will be quite simple if you have a CNC. But this pleasure is expensive and few people have such a device. But all this work is quite simply done manually. We draw the handle profile on the tree and slowly cut it out. It’s good to have a jigsaw, if not, it’s not scary, everything can be done with hand tools. You will need to make two halves. Take care that the handle is not too thick. Sand the workpieces carefully so that they are smooth and the same.



Step Three Drill holes in the metal
The metal of the saw blades is hardened; it is made of high carbon steel. Just so you can’t drill it with an ordinary drill. For these purposes, you will need a special drill with carbide tip. Usually this can be done with the drill used to drill concrete.
There is another option, you can always heat the metal to red, and then let it cool in the open air. As a result, it will be drilled without problems with an ordinary drill. Do not forget to drill two holes in a long metal plate that runs along the entire length of the handle. However, you can let this metal go without any problems, then hardening is not required.



Step Four Beer opener
It just so happened that our author is a fan of rolling beer around a fire with friends. Of course, you can open the bottle about a bitch, but it is much more convenient to do this with a prepared tool, in our case it is an ax. It is not difficult to make an opener, just cut a clove with a grinder that will cling securely to the lid. According to the author, it works fine.


Step Five Trial assembly
The first thing you have to deal with the locking mechanism of the hacksaw blade. That thin metal plate that runs through the entire handle works as a spring and retainer. First, the author collects everything with bolts and checks if everything works well. To do this, drill holes in the right places where exactly, look at the photo. If something is wrong, it’s still not too late to fit everything. Try to pull out the canvas and cut something, it should be fixed securely.






Step Six Sharpen ax
The most crucial moment in the manufacture of an ax comes - this is its sharpening. Since the hatchet is made without subsequent hardening, it is important for us to sharpen it correctly. When sharpening, the blade will heat up, which means that metal tempering can occur if the temperature becomes too high. After tempering, the metal will be soft and the ax will quickly lose sharpening. Before sharpening, stock up with a bowl of water and constantly cool the blade in it. Sharpen the author carefully using a grinder and grinding disc. This creates a bevel, and also rough grinding occurs.





For finer sharpening, we take files, as well as sandpaper. If desired, using an emery paper, the hatchet can be sharpened to the state of the blade. But since we will be chopping them with firewood, we don’t need it very sharp, and it’s not safe.

Seventh step. Glue the hatchet
As glue we use epoxy. It will be convenient to use a double syringe, which simultaneously applies resin and hardener. The glue must be applied carefully, as there are moving parts inside the handle. Before mixing the resin with the hardener, prepare the pins. The author used ordinary nails as pins. We cut them to the desired length so that they protrude slightly from the handle on both sides.




We apply glue in the part where the hatchet is attached, and also glue the upper half of the steel plate.The bottom part does not need to be glued, it works like a spring. We tighten the whole thing with clamps and leave it for 24 hours, this is how often the epoxy glue dries.

Step Eight. We form the handle
When the glue is completely dry, take a file and carefully treat the surface of the handle, remove excess. After rough processing we take large emery paper and continue grinding. In the end, gradually reducing the grain of the paper, we make the pen absolutely smooth. After that, the hatchet is almost ready, try it in practice!





Step nine Finishing touches

In the end, do not forget to protect the tree from moisture, this is a very important point. If this is not done, the handle will absorb water and will crack quickly, and it will also absorb dirt. For protection, you will need linseed oil or special impregnation for wood. We apply the oil and leave it to dry, after which it will no longer be taken.




The hatchet is ready, its weight is only 300 grams, so taking it with you on a trip will not be very difficult. For safe wearing for an hatchet, you definitely need to make a cover.
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11 comments
Quote: Valery
As a far from wealthy person, I traveled mainly to Turkey for a vacation. Because Egypt, although cheaper - is a "Hotel-Restaurant-Beach". And Turkey climbed into the mountains, walk through wooded areas ... and then you raise your eyes - and you are under a huge arch of a Byzantine aqueduct, overgrown with vegetation !!!! ... Or you went to Demre and wander through the Lycian tombs ... And they are six thousand years old ... And then until the evening you sit in a huge ancient amphitheater, imagining how patricians were sitting on the same stone ....
Sometimes in the morning I just walked around the city. On foot ... Another culture !!! Another way of life ... It’s interesting to sit in a cafe with a hookah, drink coffee, chat with locals ....
Well ... sometimes you get lost ... So the Turks are all very friendly people! They will always help, prompt ... And yet, I am amazed at their honesty. Somehow I forgot the money ... So in two cafes I drank coffee "on faith". The owner just asked the name and in which hotel I live and offered to drink coffee, but when I get back, leave a dollar at the reception - he will send the boy in the evening.)))
And also did not understand those who, without a guide, were afraid to leave the hotel !! Oh no no no!! In a foreign country!! In an unfamiliar city !!! ))))


when I was in Tunisia I was tired of sticking out on the beach ... I went on my own to the capital Tunis city ... I decided to find Carthage ... there they’re poorly understood English more than French because the former French colony ... asked for directions and here by chance I got to know the local, as it turned out, then the policeman talked in broken English ... and at that time the “Revolution” started there and there were a lot of special forces in masks with assault rifles ... so they caught me and they thought that there was some kind of activist or radical ... but my new friend immediately showed his credentials rhenium agreed with them let me go ...
As a far from wealthy person, I traveled mainly to Turkey for a vacation. Because Egypt, although cheaper - is a "Hotel-Restaurant-Beach". And Turkey climbed into the mountains, walk through wooded areas ... and then you raise your eyes - and you are under a huge arch of a Byzantine aqueduct, overgrown with vegetation !!!! ... Or you went to Demre and wander through the Lycian tombs ... And they are six thousand years old ... And then until the evening you sit in a huge ancient amphitheater, imagining how patricians were sitting on the same stone ....
Sometimes in the morning I just walked around the city. On foot ... Another culture !!! Another way of life ... It’s interesting to sit in a cafe with a hookah, drink coffee, chat with locals ....
Well ... sometimes you get lost ... So the Turks are all very friendly people! They will always help, prompt ... And yet, I am amazed at their honesty. Somehow I forgot the money ... So in two cafes I drank coffee "on faith".The owner just asked the name and in which hotel I live and offered to drink coffee, but when I get back, leave a dollar at the reception - he will send the boy in the evening.)))
And also did not understand those who, without a guide, were afraid to leave the hotel !! Oh no no no!! In a foreign country!! In an unfamiliar city !!! ))))
Quote: Valery
Yes, what the fuck is survival? !!! “Survival” today is to stop by the car with everything ready, sit for one night, understand that it’s not like in movies and dreams from the couch, understand that he’s okay, go for mosquitoes, and in the morning - Back to a comfortable apartment! ))))
..And this is MAXIMUM !!! .. Because the majority of "survivors" survival comes down to the dreams and fabrications of absolutely unnecessary and worthless "devices", in their children's view, which could help them in the forest ...))))

As for this souvenir, this is precisely SOUVENIR. And the matter is not only in the light and thin blade, which can chop no stronger than the blade of a table knife .... You look at the mount "ax" !!! The end of a piece of wood is weakened by a longitudinal cut and does not strengthen anything from the outside !! At the first sufficiently strong blow, the extreme rivet will break off the upper part! The crack will reach the second one and the blade will fly out. (Why there is a third one is not clear. There are only two holes in the ax.) The handle will simply crack.
I am sure that the hatchet was made just as a souvenir !! Because to believe that there is an adult who would have thought that it can be applied in the forest is impossible! ... And for a child, the work is too complicated.
And for a souvenir - not bad enough. Or, as a gift to a child.


Well, you can give a child, but I must say, look at the young trees in the neighbor do not chop ... and do not aim at the fingers ...
when our people abroad were seen by Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Kazakhs ... they really don’t know how to travel 300 m go from the hotel so order a taxi ... just deviate from the hiking trail ... stress ... disaster ... and get on nature without a smartphone with a navigator ... it’s a nightmare for them ... and they don’t know how to select the necessary things for travel, or even less so ...
Quote: pogranec
Well, to what extent the hangover, that beer cannot be opened ... It would be beer. By the way, I liked Lviv, I don’t remember the name, they don’t carry this hour.


Probably “Lvivske 1715” or “Bochkovoe” - but in Russia I only saw “Chernigovskoe” and “Obolon” ​​... generally now there is a tendency to pour beer into cans ... more convenient, easier, no need to carry a key ... and if there’s a lot drink the head off each other does not break ...
We mainly have glass and draft. I heard something there, whether they banned plastic for beer, or they’re going to.
pogranec,
"Lvivske svitle"))))). This year I was traveling from Odessa, so I was changing trains in Kovel and, so that the hryvnia would not remain, I bought a package of two-liter cars. ))))).
But basically, I drink "Zhigulevskoe" local spill. 2 liters - that’s it !!!.
And the glass ones, I thought, are already turning away, aren't they ??
Well, to what extent the hangover, that beer cannot be opened ... It would be beer. By the way, I liked Lviv, I don’t remember the name, they don’t carry this hour.
Author
the inability to open a beer with a hangover is survival
Yes, what the fuck is survival? !!! “Survival” today is to stop by the car with everything ready, sit for one night, understand that it’s not like in movies and dreams from the couch, understand that he’s okay, get some mosquitoes, and in the morning - Back to a comfortable apartment! ))))
..And this is MAXIMUM !!! .. Because the majority of "survivors" survival comes down to the dreams and fabrications of absolutely unnecessary and worthless "devices", in their children's view, which could help them in the forest ...))))

As for this souvenir, this is precisely SOUVENIR. And it’s not only a light and thin blade that can chop no stronger than a table knife blade ....You look at the mount "ax" !!! The end of a piece of wood is weakened by a longitudinal cut and does not strengthen anything from the outside !! At the first sufficiently strong blow, the extreme rivet will break off the upper part! The crack will reach the second one and the blade will fly out. (Why there is a third one is not clear. There are only two holes in the ax.) The handle will simply crack.
I am sure that the hatchet was made just as a souvenir !! Because to believe that there is an adult who would have thought that it can be applied in the forest is impossible! ... And for a child, the work is too complicated.
And for a souvenir - not bad enough. Or, as a gift to a child.
a weak spot in a hatchet is a thin blade ... in real axes massive blades for weight and greater kinetic energy ... in addition there is a longer handle for a high scope ... the saw for a trip is short - you will have to drag a little energy here and there when surviving ... well, an opener for a bottle is the most important thing for a vizhivalschika ...)
As a souvenir - very good ...
True, I, as a "burnt practitioner", do not like non-functional things ... But this one may come in handy, for example, in spring pruning of plants. The saw is real in it. A “hatchet” is useful to brush off a light shoot, which interferes with sawing.
Only now, is this souvenir worth a damaged saw blade ???
As for me - definitely not !!! After all, they took the real one anyway. And without a hatchet, this tool could have been dispensed with - it is still not functional and made for beauty ... But for the sake of beauty, one could find another tin ... Or, not to do it at all .. I would have cleanly drunk ..

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